Re: Using a downloader to test plugin releases

2008-08-27 Thread Jason van Zyl
The only benefit of the profile is that the plugin is downloaded and installed as Maven does normally. Updating metadata accordingly and all that jazz. On 27-Aug-08, at 1:14 PM, Dan Fabulich wrote: Jason van Zyl wrote: The method that we've pushed in a couple releases is a simple profile

Re: Using a downloader to test plugin releases

2008-08-27 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Dan Fabulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought it would be cool to have a downloader plugin that let you do this: > > mvn downloader:get >-Dartifact=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.1 >-DrepoUrl=http://people.apache.org/~olamy/staging-repo

Re: Using a downloader to test plugin releases

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Fabulich
Jason van Zyl wrote: The method that we've pushed in a couple releases is a simple profile which lists the staging repository where a test plugin has been deployed. The profile can be generated with the release and it's a separate file, so you just erase it when you're done with it. Think the

Re: Using a downloader to test plugin releases

2008-08-27 Thread Jason van Zyl
The method that we've pushed in a couple releases is a simple profile which lists the staging repository where a test plugin has been deployed. The profile can be generated with the release and it's a separate file, so you just erase it when you're done with it. Think the profile might be a

Using a downloader to test plugin releases

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Fabulich
I've always found it to be a hassle to test plugins that don't need to be wired up in POM files, e.g. the archetype, dependency, scm plugins. I find that to test them I have to create a dummy POM file with a section, as described in our guide to testing staged releases. http://maven.apach